[AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow

[charlie hill]

Oh I agree John.  I'm no sexist.  I fully believe in women working.  LOL
No you are right and my sister did work and she worked hard but she
only remembers the days that she helped out.  She has no memory of
the days that I sat on the tractor for 16 hours because she wasn't there.
She was off doing girl stuff with my mom or her friends and she didn't
even know there was any work going on.  Also, as far as the tobacco
work, you are right.  The work the men did was just a lot harder work
plus the farmer or the farmers son (me) was working long before and long
after the others.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.  My dad never
wanted me to have to work hard like he did and if I hadn't been willing I
wouldn't have had to do near as much as I did.  I wanted to do it but that
doesn't mean it wasn't long, hard, tiring work.  I didn't want to do it 
because
it was fun.  I wanted to do it because if I didn't my dad had to do it and 
it was
easier for me than for him.

Charlie



-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 7:22 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow

Too funny Charlie! I had to explain it a couple times to my sister last year
that the girls never did the work I did. Hard to believe she's 50 years old
and just getting that. I think I finally got it through to her that girls
and old men went to deliver tobacco and grain. Able bodied young men were
needed to do manual labor. I was grown and delivering my own  grain before I
ever went to an elevator. We started earlier and stayed later. If it was
hotter or stormier then we were still at it working, not at the house. We
worked alone in remote places.  Don't mean to sound sexist, that's just the
way it was. Personally I'm all for the ladies helping out on the farm, but
unless she is an exception to the rule and really wants to or can, some work
is for the menfolk. I know a few ladies that worked as long as the men, but
that was a matter of survival for the family and was many decades ago. There
might still be in some isolated cases, but not like what it was.

John

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 2:30 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow
To this day my sister swears she put in as much work on the farm as I did.
grins.  She worked the same
hours as the hired help.  Well, I'll take that back.  She did usually help
us take the dried tobacco out of the barn
but she stood outside in the cool morning breeze and passed the sticks of
cured leaves to my dad to load
on the truck or trailer.

Charlie



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